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Pez limón (Seriola dumerili), Madeira, Portugal, 2019 05 31, DD 31🐟

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SpeciesPerciformesCarangidae
Fish

🐟Greater amberjack

Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810)

Stor ravfisk (Seriola Dumerili) er en art af hestemakreller og tilhører familien Carangidae.

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Measurements
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≈ 1.3× your weight
Also called
Jenny Lind, Yellow Tail, Amberjack, Rock Salmon, Sailor's Choice, Allied Kingfish, Great Amberfish, Great Yellowtail, Greater Yellowtail, Purplish Amberjack, Samson Fish, Yellow Trevally
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
81 kg
Body length
1 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Greater amberjack

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
81 kgmaximum recorded
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
1 mrecord 1.9 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 yearsmaximum recorded
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Trophic level
4.7
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 4.7 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
reports of ciguatera poisoning
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
81 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Greater amberjack yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyCarangidae
  5. ›genusSeriola
  6. ›speciesSeriola dumerili
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. classActinopteri
  3. subclassNeopterygii
  4. orderAcanthomorphata
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
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Seriola dumerili (es), Sériole couronnée (fr), 高體鰤 (zh), Seriola olbrzymia (pl), סריול אטלנטי (he), círvia (ca) … and 20 more languages
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Pez limón (Seriola dumerili), Madeira, Portugal, 2019 05 31, DD 31Seriola dumerili Sanc2431
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